{"id":288574,"date":"2026-01-17T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288574\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:12:07","slug":"ben-affleck-says-he-had-food-poisoning-while-filming-goodbye-scene-with-bruce-willis-in-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288574\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Says He Had Food Poisoning While Filming Goodbye Scene With Bruce Willis in \u2018Armageddon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Affleck is looking back on his time making the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rip actor revealed that he was suffering from food poisoning while filming the emotional scene where Bruce Willis\u2019 Harry S. Stamper says goodbye to Affleck\u2019s A.J. Frost, sacrificing himself to save the planet from an asteroid.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen we shot that scene, I had food poisoning,\u201d Affleck said during a recent interview<\/a> with Fox 32 Chicago\u2019s Jake Hamilton. \u201cI wasn\u2019t an experienced enough actor at that point to know that you can just pick up the phone and be like, \u2018I\u2019m too sick to work today.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018I better come in.\u2019 So I went and I was literally \u2014 it\u2019s the only time it\u2019s ever happened in my life \u2014 vomiting between takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had a garbage can and I was [vomiting between takes]. And it probably made the scene better,\u201d he added with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Affleck shared that filming Armageddon allowed him to work with several talented actors, including Willis, who he said was \u201creally nice to everybody.\u201d\u00a0Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan and Will Patton also appeared in the disaster film. Liv Tyler played Affleck\u2019s love interest Grace Stamper, who is Harry\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually saw Steve Buscemi last night at the premiere for The Rip, and we were reminiscing about that movie and thinking about how that was the weirdest, kind of wonderful, strange, otherworldly movie experience,\u201d Affleck said.<\/p>\n

Armageddon director Michael Bay previously told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that Affleck \u201cfelt like shit\u201d while filming the movie\u2019s iconic ending. The director shared that Affleck\u00a0was suffering from the stomach flu, but was \u201cgreat\u201d in the scene regardless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat movie was such a blast. It was like a summer camp and I was the counselor,\u201d Bay recalled in March. \u201cEveryone was so misbehaved and so funny. I\u2019ll tell you the truth. There was a three-gallon painting bucket next to Ben Affleck. He had the stomach flu. He felt like shit. He looked like shit, too. And he had to do that scene between him throwing up. We kept shooting him. And he\u2019s great in that. And he\u2019s great in that partially because he had the stomach flu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armageddon isn\u2019t the only Affleck film that the industry is looking back on. During an event at a Los Angeles bookstore on Thursday, Jennifer Garner recalled Affleck listening to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 2008 single \u201cHalo\u201d non-stop while making the 2010 thriller The Town. The Alias actress, who was married to Affleck from 2005 to 2018, reflected on the moment while speaking about her Apple TV series, The Last Thing He Told Me, with author Laura Dave and co-star Rita Wilson, according to People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garner mentioned that Dave, who wrote the book the series is based on, listened to music while working, similar to Affleck.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you guys do this? Do you listen to a song over and over again? \u2026 I just want to tell you something. I\u2019ve survived this. I have lived through it,\u201d Garner said at Diesel, A Bookstore. \u201cBen Affleck listens to a song over and over. I had a 3-month-old and a 3-year-old living in a rental in Cambridge, Massachusetts while he was shooting The Town. And he listened to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u2018Halo,\u2019 and I would be nursing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dave responded, \u201dI love that because the only other person now besides Ben that I\u2019ve heard that does that was [screenwriter] Tom Stoppard. And when I heard that, I thought, okay, I\u2019m in some good company.\u201d<\/p>\n

Affleck previously opened up about listening to music while working during an interview with the\u00a0Golden Globes\u2019 website<\/a> in 2016. The Oscar winner said that he likes to find songs that inspire him and \u201cwrite to music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dI find that it\u2019s kind of hypnotic and it allows me to concentrate more and it puts me more in the kind of feeling of the scene that I want the story to have,\u201d he shared. \u201dAnd so I think music is really, really helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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